Former Republican Gov. Larry Hogan vowed Thursday in his first Maryland Senate debate with Democrat Angela Alsobrooks to be an independent voice in an increasingly polarized Washington and to support federal legislation affirming a right to abortion.

Democrat Angela Alsobrooks is highlighting former Gov. Larry Hogan’s actions in office as evidence he isn’t as supportive of abortion rights as he now claims to be.

Angela Alsobrooks, the Prince George’s County executive and Democratic Senate candidate, said she will create “economic opportunity for every Maryland family. I’ll also fight for our freedoms, like a woman’s right to choose contraception and IVF. I’ll also fight to make sure that we are ending gun violence in America.”

In the sole head-to-head televised debate of the Maryland Senate race, Democratic candidate Angela Alsobrooks, a Prince George's County executive and Maryland's former Republican Gov. Larry Hogan sought to define themselves as moderate,

In their only faceoff in the solidly blue state, Hogan sought distance from Trump and the national GOP, while Alsobrooks touted her support for "the Democratic agenda."

Former Governor Larry Hogan and Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks faced off in the first, and only, Maryland Senate debate at Maryland Public T

Democratic nominee Angela Alsobrooks and Republican nominee Larry Hogan faced off Thursday in a WBAL-TV 11 debate in partnership with Maryland Public Television and NBC News.